in its raw form and virtually no indicators or ponderations are built within this system. Users can establish relationships between variables and build their own indicators according to their own needs and analytical perspectives. All data is in levels or as percentage contributed to total national research output. Measures of the size of the universities surveyed are available thought faculty numbers and student enrollments. Based on this comparative study project, the Dirección General de Evaluación Institucional at UNAM, creators of ECUM, have published several reports called Desempeño de Universidades Mexicanas en la Función de Investigación: Estudio Comparativo and Estudio comparativo de universidades mexicanas. Segundo reporte: desempeño en investigación y docencia providing an analysis of the data for 2007 and 2008. References Education in Mexico